Amongst other strange Images, there flood a great Lyon of Marble, seeming almost decollated with a great gash; into which Wound they pour’d humane Blood warm, which was receiv’d into a Stone Trough set for that purpose underneath; then the Figure of a Man Carv’d in Alabaster, bowing forward, as if looking into the Trough upon the Blood. Those which were sacrificed were Prisoners taken on the neighboring Coasts, whom bringing before their Idols, they ripping open make no farther inspection, but onely to whip out the Heart; with which having smear’d the Lips of their Idols, they throw it into the Fire: the Heads and Corps they let lie unburi’d; whose fleshy parts, especially their Cheeks, they feast upon. [Sidenote: _Maiden-Island._] The next Island is inhabited by Women; to which Annually their Neighbors go, pretending merry kindness, but upon amorous inclinations: and Plough and Till their Ground, and Weed their Gardens. [Sidenote: _Pontenchianum_ a City.] The chief City of _Tabasco_ is _Pontenchianum_, and contains above fifteen hundred Houses, all built of Stone hardned with baking after their manner; which in some Places, besides their Turrets and Temples, yield a pleasant Prospect at a great distance. Fourteen eminent Towns more did the _Spaniards_ also see in _Tabasco_. [Sidenote: Strange making of Obligations.] When in conversing with them they observ’d their strange manner of Sealing their Bargains and Contracts one with another, they were amaz’d, for not using Wax, they usually Seal’d their Compacts with their own Blood, commonly drawn with a Stone Knife, either from their Tongue, Hand, or Arms. Their Priests live single, and if found to be Unchast, are punisht with Death. An Adulteress is sold for a Slave: Unmarry’d People may not frequently converse with Marry’d: Thirty five days in the year makes their _Lent_, in which they abstain not onely from Flesh, but Fish also, feeding onely upon Roots and Herbs. In this place the _Spaniards_ were receiv’d in great state, Canopy’d with green Palm-Tree-Branches, and in like manner conducted aboard again, not without many Presents, _viz._ the Effigies of a Man curiously wrought in Gold, wherewith they return’d to _Cuba_. SECT. IXA. _The Expedition of_ Ferdinand Magaglian, _commonly call’d_ Magellane. [Sidenote: Bishop _Casis_ sad effect concerning the Pearl catching.]